You may sign up with one of three parties. They are, from left to right, the Labor Party, the Radical Party, and the National Party. Later there may be other choices, but for now that is all. When each party has about 20 members, we may start.

1. Before I commit to this, what rules should I read so that I don't make a total ass of myself?

2. Could you give us a little more info on the parties, such as their positions on certain key issues? Exactly how far to the left are Labor, and how far to the right are the Nationals? And can the Radicals be described as centrist?

3. What sort of history does this country have? I'm going to need a little more info than the names of the major parties and a Rorschach Inkblot to hold my interest.

2. Could you give us a little more info on the parties, such as their positions on certain key issues? Exactly how far to the left are Labor, and how far to the right are the Nationals? And can the Radicals be described as centrist?

As far as I can tell, the three parties correspond to the British parties. Their ideologies, of course, depend on who joins. Based on present membership, Labor is socialist, the Radicals are right-liberal, and the Nationals are conservative-populist.